James Clark, 1st baronet
1788–1870
Scottish naval surgeon and physician. Naval surgeon, 1809–15. Practised as a physician in Rome, 1819–26; in London, 1826–60. Physician to Prince Leopold, the duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert. Member of the senate of London University, 1838–65; served on the general medical council, 1858–60. Created baronet, 1837. FRS 1832.
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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